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The MacNelly cartoon on the editorial page of Dec. 21 attempts to portray Saddam Hussein as unwilling to negotiate in good faith; this is extremely unfair. He has repeatedly offered to leave Kuwait in exchange for an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied territories. By refusing to consider this solution, George Bush proclaims his willingness to waste tens of thousands of American lives-and millions of Iraqi lives-to preserve the murderous Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Your editorial "The flag and the thought we hate" was a calm, intelligent reflection on the recent Supreme Court decision regarding flag-burning. By an untypically configured 5-4 vote, the court reaffirmed that our tradition of free speech includes symbolic speech and offensively dumb opinion. Interestingly, the MacNelly cartoon just above your editorial provided a handy example of the offensively dumb. It showed an American flag burning beneath the Supreme Court bench, from which five sticks were held out roasting marshmallows.

But it never happened. Not in any big way. No matter how many times the citizens were presented with clear evidence that the President was far from nuclear-physicist material, most people continued to like him. Even the Democrats eventually realized that it was a mistake to say anything bad about him. Reagan's overwhelming popularity seemed positively spooky to the media, who called him the "Teflon President," as though his secret was some kind...

How can anyone make fun of the fact that 37 sailors died? Granted, no mention of that was shown but what is in the brain of cartoonist MacNelly (apparently nothing)? The cartoon on the USS Stark is appalling, disgusting, cheap, disgraceful and totally in the poorest of taste. Do you honestly think that if MacNelly or your editor had had a son on that ship who was killed by that Exocet missile, you would have printed that terrible cartoon? No way! Those men are out there defending their country in an area they don`t even want to be in, but they`re still doing their job. There are plenty of presidential candidates to do cartoons about, not to mention a mayor, a governor, several alderman, senators, congressmen, state legislators, CHA board members, school board members or any political figures.

On behalf of America's professional librarians, among the most appealing people in the book community, blechhhh to your book-section cover of Dec. 28, with its pathetic and long-outdated cartoon of an old-maid librarian. What an inappropriate waste of MacNelly's talent!

Jeff MacNelly's July 18 cartoon posed an interesting parallel. It was captioned "The war on drugs," and in it the talented Mr. MacNelly depicted the "user" as a ballplayer getting a wrist tap, the "dealer" in his limousine conducting business with "your Honor" over a car phone and the "grower" facing annihilation from incoming aircraft. My question: Why "your Honor"? Once the accolade of merit was to be considered sober as a judge. Is it trite to ponder whether these gratuitous barbs serve any purpose?

Jeff MacNelly, The Tribune's Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, went to New Orleans this week to find out what Super Bowl XX is all about. What he found was 2,000 other "media representatives" trying to learn the same thing at the same time with pretty much the same result.

A memorial service for C.L. "Bud" MacNelly, 65, who gave up a lucrative career in advertising to become a successful portrait painter, will be held at 3 p.m. Saturdayin St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Va. Mr. MacNelly, the father of Jeff MacNelly, a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The Tribune, died Thursday in a Richmond hospital. He had been a Richmond resident since 1977. After serving in the Navy during World War II, Mr. MacNelly began a 20-year career in advertising that saw him become a top executive with two large New York firms.

Jeff MacNelly, The Tribune's Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, has been researching the Oak Street Beach and its inhabitants ever since he moved to Chicago. "The thing I find amazing about it is you can take the Sunday paper and something to drink and earphones and sit down on the concrete to watch one of the greatest free shows in Chicago," he says. "I can see it from where I live." (For his view, turn back to this SUNDAY's cover.) "I hate crowds and crowded places, but Oak Street Beach is strangely relaxing.